On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) released Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research , which expands on the original 2013 memo that …
Data Equity
The Impact of Data Invisibility and the Need for Disaggregation
Data on ethnicity and race in the United States is often lumped into five or six broad categories, in ways that can render communities invisible or hide disparate impacts of inequality on subgroups. Although broad …
Tools for Data Equity Part 1: Acknowledging Your Worldview
As we work to incorporate data equity into our practices, it is our responsibility as researchers and research support staff to evaluate our practices so that we can disrupt the encoding of implicit biases in …
The CARE Priniciples for Indigenous Data Governance – #BeFAIRandCARE
In our introductory post to our Practicing Data Equity series, we mentioned that research institutions, especially research intensive or predominantly white institutions, often wield inequitable power in research partnerships with communities. Historically research projects across …